Mark Thomas

Filmes

Hong Kong: City on Fire
Executive Producer
Taking us from Hong Kong's 1997 handover from British rule into Chinese administrative control, all the way to 2019, when a controversial extradition bill is greeted with massive street protests, this urgent film beds in with Hong Kong's pro-democracy demonstrations, offering a frontline portrait of four young protesters through a year of struggle. We see their hopes for a freer life and feel their fears as the authorities crack down. Pulse-racing scenes bring the viewer to street level, where peaceful protest is met with fury and tear gas. Clear-eyed about the complications and contradictions that come with a movement that changed Hong Kong forever, Hong Kong: City on Fire is a brave document of troubled times.
Sound for the Future
Executive Producer
An affectionate and hilarious reconstruction of the story of The Hippies, Britain’s youngest punk band, formed by artist Matt Hulse and his siblings in 1979.
War and Justice: The Case of Marine A
Executive Producer
In Afghanistan, 2011, Royal Marine Alexander Blackman shot an unarmed Taliban insurgent in the chest. What's the true story behind one of the most controversial events in the war on terror?
My Old School
Executive Producer
In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years would become the stuff of legend.
The Wolf Suit
Executive Producer
How much can you trust your childhood memories? Director Sam Firth investigates, sweeping her parents into the experiment and on a journey into the past.
Final Ascent: The Legend of Hamish MacInnes
Executive Producer
The legend of Hamish MacInnes began early. At 16 he climbed the Matterhorn. At 17 he built his first motor car – from scratch. He attempted Everest in 1953 with his friend Johnny Cunningham, and almost stole the peak before Hillary and Tenzing. As an explorer, expedition leader and engineer he achieved world fame. As inventor of the all metal ice axe, author of the International Mountain Rescue Handbook and founder of Glencoe Mountain Rescue he has been responsible for saving hundreds of lives, if not thousands. But at the age of 84, his accomplishments could not save him from being institutionalised against his will, suffering from delirium. After a spell in psychogeriatric detainment in a hospital in the Highlands of Scotland, during which he made many escape attempts – he emerged to find his memory gone. This film tells the story of his life by mirroring his greatest challenge: to recover his memories and rescue himself.
Scheme Birds
Executive Producer
As her adolescence gives way to the obligations of motherhood, troubled Gemma matures in Motherwell, her Scottish hometown, heavily dependent on the steel industry. Unfortunately for her, her hedonistic way of understanding the world does not fit in with the philosophy of the rest of the villagers, so trouble soon follows.
Anna e o Apocalipse
Executive Producer
Um apocalipse zumbi ameaça a pacata cidade de Little Haven - no Natal - forçando Anna e seus amigos a lutar, golpear e cantar pela sua sobrevivência, enfrentando mortos-vivos em uma corrida desesperada para encontrar seus entes queridos. Mas logo descobrem que ninguém está seguro neste novo mundo, e com a civilização desmoronando ao redor deles, as únicas pessoas em quem podem realmente confiar são uns nos outros...
Os Olhos de Orson Welles
Executive Producer
Uma viagem poética ao mundo visual do lendário cineasta e ator Orson Welles (1915-85) que revela um novo retrato de um gênio único, tanto de sua vida quanto de sua monumental obra: através de seus próprios olhos, desenhados por sua própria mão, pintados com seu próprio pincel.
You've Been Trumped Too
Executive Producer
A timely film exploring the confrontation between a feisty 92-year-old Scottish widow and her family and a billionaire trying to become the most powerful man in the world.
Hamish
Executive Producer
A documentary about the life and work of the Scottish poet and activist, Hamish Henderson.